Rebel Justice

Day 3- Part 2

In the training room, Connor was beating the heck out of a training robot. Soon enough, the head popped off of the thing, and the body fell to the ground.

"Hey Connor, wanna spar?" Robin asked the Boy of Steel.

"No."

But he walked over to an area with mats on the floor anyways. Robin headed over and stood across from Connor.

Connor charged at him, trying to simply grab the acrobat. If he had been able to get his hands on him, the match would've been over. But, of course, Robin had seen it coming and jumped over his head. He landed on the ground in a crouch; waiting to see what Connor would do next.

Conner decided to take a different approach to taking Robin down. He circled the bird, looking for any opening, any weak point. He thought he saw it, and darted out to catch Robin's leg. Robin saw this coming and cartwheeled away, which enraged Connor.

He ran towards Robin, who continued to flip and dance out of his way. But the clone wouldn't give up. He could and would take the bird down. He was almost as powerful as Superman! He could handle a little human kid.

Suddenly, that little kid landed on his back. Connor wasn't expecting this, and was forced down with the momentum. Robin jumped off.

"I think I win."

He offered him a hand up. "Could you teach me some of those moves," Connor said.

"Sure, if I have some time. Connor, why did you leave? I know Superman was a jerk, but we all liked you and wanted you there."

"Superman was the one person I wanted to like me, and he hated me. Why should I have stayed?"

"But the rest of the Lords liked you. We wanted you to be happy, and we were working on Superman so that he would like you too."

"Remember that mission I went on to Cadmus? It turns out I'm half human. I'll never be a perfect replica of Superman. He will never want me. And there's M'gann. We… bonded while we were hanging out at the Watch Tower together. I missed her."

"Oh. I'm starving, wanna go grab some lunch?"

"Sure."

The two headed for the cafeteria. Sitting inside was one person, R2. He was fiddling with some arrows, a plate of food sitting next to him. Robin and Connor grabbed something to eat, then sat down next to him.

"So, you're the first Roy Harper. How'd that happen?"

R2 looked up. "Cadmus was worried the Justice Lords were getting too powerful. This was before Flash died. They kidnapped me and stole some of my DNA to create a clone. I was shoved in a cryostasis tube for years. Red Arrow found me while trying to steal some files from the Cadmus system. I was in a coma for a bit after he pulled me out, but when I woke up he told me what happened. So, after I saw how much the Lords screwed the world up, I decided to stay and help him."

"So you didn't want to go find Green Arrow? Tell him what happened?"

"Yeah, for a bit. But he and I weren't very close. After I saw what happened, I didn't want to go back and work with the people who murdered our civilization."

The doors to the cafeteria opened and Artemis and Raquel walked in.

"And then, he started stroking the umbrella!" Artemis said.

The two burst out into laughter, trying not to pass out from lack of oxygen.

"I can't believe he would do that!"

Artemis and Raquel grabbed some food and sat down at the table.

"What's up you guys?" Artemis queried.

"Nothing much, just fletching some new arrows," R2 responded.

The group ate quickly, small talk exchanged around the table. After they were done, Artemis and R2 got into a conversation on arrows, Connor drifted off, and Robin was left sitting awkwardly with Raquel.

"I know we don't know each other, but I'd like to get to know you."

"What don't you know already?"

"Woah, little dude. I just want to be friends. You seem to have history with everyone here, I'm curious."

"How about you tell me how you got here."

"All right. I was a normal girl, working with a great scientist. He was able to invent devices, which made the user able to control kinetic energy. He was going to destroy his work, so the Lords couldn't use it. Instead I convinced him to give me the equipment so I could try and take a bite out of their totalitarian regime. I didn't know where to start, and traveled around trying to find anyone with information about the Lords and how to take them down. I found Red Arrow, and joined with him to save the world."

"I'm an orphan. Batman took me in, gave me a home and a family. He helped me find a way to spread justice to the world, to make sure what happened to me would never happen to anyone else. I was iffy when the Justice Lords decided to take over the world, but I believed they were doing their best to protect the people. I was sad when my friends started disappearing, when I was told they must be dead. Now I'm here."

"So what do you think of the Lords rule now?"

"I honestly don't know."


And the plot thickens. I'm having serious trouble uploading things on my Macbook, so the one shot Breeze wrote might not be put out until I can get it fixed or find another computer. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Have a marvelous day,

Shadow